For your case, I put together a list...
1) Keep your Airborne friends close and hang out at the VFW hall.
2) Hang out with CF people in your spare time.
3) Spend more time with the kids and get them to entertain you.
4) Start going to church. Good people and insightful readings make for
an active social life.
5) Follow local bands and support the scene.
6) Taking a gourmet cooking class at one of the restaurants in DC. Sign
up for out on the town nights.
7) Become a member at the local gun club. Start putting ads in the back
of Soldier of Fortune for weird stuff, like Nutria removal.
8) Become friends with Eliza. Tell it anything you want.
9) LAN parties and the gamerz who frequent them.
10) Start a political cause, like People for the Seventh Amendment. Go
to popular places and hand out fliers. Decorate your car with bumper
stickers advocating your cause. Get T-Shirts made and take pictures with
lots of people wearing them.
This is all stuff you can do in the evening or on the weekends. If you
are inventive, some of it can be done during the day. This way, you
always have your mates, they are just not FTEs reporting to you in your
company. They can call you, IM you, send you emails, etc.
But, as the MAN, you don't want the people who work for you taking
advantage of a friendship. It dilutes your authority to make command
decisions and gives them a means of bucking unpopular policies you may
have to enforce. Just because things seem alright today, there is always
tomorrow, and you must have the discipline to be a leader if you are
persuing that path. It takes the respect of your people to be in
control, and (sadly) that is rarely earned from drinking buddies, pals,
or casual acquaintences.
One thing a friend of mine does in imagine everyone is being inauthentic
if he has a good time with them. He constantly repeats to himself no one
is his friend, or they wouldn't be if they really knew what went through
his head. Nicest guy you would ever want to meet, unless you work for
him. He's 30 and semi-retired from AOL, plus he has enough money to live
comfortably the rest of his life.
M
-----Original Message-----
From: Heald, Tim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, February 09, 2004 4:04 PM
To: CF-Community
Subject: RE: Much Blabbering
now you see my predicament.
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